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There Can Be Few Subjects Of Such Widespread Interest And Fascination To Anyone Who Reads As The Strange Ways Of Languages. In This Wonderfully Entertaining And Fascinating Book, John Mcwhorter Introduces Us To 'the Natural History Of Language': From Russonorsk, A Creole Of Russian And Norwegian Once Spoken By Trading Fur Trappers To An Australian Aboriginal Language Which Only Has Three Verbs. Witty, Brilliant And Authoritative, This Book Is A Must For Anyone Who Is Interested In Language, As Sheerly Enjoyable As Non-fiction Gets. Introduces us to 'the natural history of language': from Russonorsk, a creole of Russian and Norwegian once spoken by trading fur trappers to an Australian Aboriginal language which only has three verbs. This book is suitable for those who are interested in language. This text provides a guided tour of languages, aiming to be at once both thought-provoking and entertaining. Examining such things as the way in which Yiddish has been influenced by the grammar of Polish, and how English absorbed French at two stages of its history. "Hebrew"" ""But why don' we speak Hebrew, Mom?"""